@Flyer said in WOL Not Working After Imaging:

I guess they only way to know is to test.

Exactly. 🙂

@Sebastian-Roth
Thank you Sebastian, I will give that a try. Thanks again for the excellent support! You can close this ticket.

With the bad RAM removed the system imaged just fine with the same image. Thanks again.

@DCSOTech OK make sure I understand, you have a 6TB drive that already has FOG images on it and you want to preserve your image files?

If the drive is already connected to your fog server (but not necessarily ubuntu) key in this command and put the output here.

lsblk

This command will show block devices on the computer (think hard drives). From that output we can give you the next steps.

Also one question to avoid many turns on questions. Is your current fog server a new fog server without any captured images, where you want to bring in the new 6TB drive before you start capturing images? (its important to know the approach we will take to connect the drive if we need to save what is currently on the fog server).

Hi, thanks for the reply and information. I was able to solve my problem, by using the fog-api in the postdownloadskript. Now i am able to read the hosts group-name and create automatic dessiscions for manipulating the unattend.xml in windows based on that.

Best,
Floppyrub

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@lostitguy it seems your dhcp is set to 192.168.1.220 but your fog ui is presenting 192.168.100.2?

Did an ip address change?

You’ll likely need to update the storage node ip and web address.

@Haiflosse This is the purpose of cloning software …

Sorry if I’m seeming off on my approach, but what your asking for is the purpose FOG exists.

@OlivierSchmitt said in letsencrypt usage after installation:

It was not for use on internet.

How do you get a letsencrypt certificate if the FOG server is not facing the internet? By copying the files from another system?

@Kureebow said in DHCP Lease Timeout?:

I am encountering an error and am racking my brain here. Please see below. Thank you all so much!
udhcpc: sending discover
udhcpc: no lease, failing

Try inserting one of those cheap 5 port (i.e. dollar store) 1GbE switches between the building switch and the pxe booting computer. If that solves the problem then its a spanning tree issue.

If that’s the case your network engineer will need to set the port where you expect to see a pxe booting computer, to either portfast/fast-stp/rstp/mstp or whatever your switch mfg calls it. If you are entertaining using usb boot, it might be just as easy to walk around with that cheap-o GBE network switch.

@austinjt01 If the inexpensive switch masked your problem, then inspect the spanning tree setting on your building switch. You need/should be running one of the fast spanning tree protocols like portfast, fast-stp, rstp, etc. Standard spanning tree starts forwarding data too late for FOG.

@paolom86 Secure boot is disabled?

Hello @george1421!

absolutely amazing. I just found a tutorial that shows you how to do that on the FOG website. It’s a shame that the google TOP site when you search the keywords “how to install fog server” doesn’t include this information. I’ve tried to install FOG on several other distros as well, all with the same sort of issues. I can be confident in assuming that switch to the dev-branch would rectify all issues with the distros i’ve tried before. Thank you so much for your assistance!

@sebastian-roth This actually worked. Thank you so much!

@tbasura First let me say I know nothing about how acronis works. But for PXE booting there are two methods.

Update dhcp options 66 with the fog server’s ip address. Update dhcp option 67 with ipxe.efi for uefi or undionly.kpxe for bios based computers.

Configure a proxy dhcp server. The proxy dhcp server will send out pxe boot information that will override option 1’s settings.

If you install acronis on a server some place and its taken over pxe boot control that is probably your problem. On the box where the acronis server is installed… Check to see if there are any acronis services running, like netboot, or pxe booting service. It might be wise to just stop all acronis services on that test server.

@george1421 Does seem to be a problem with this computer on a second look. This computer is a HP 290 G3, it’s now showing “EFI stub: loaded initrd from command line option” upon deploying the image.

I’ve managed to image another computer of the same model and it worked fine, I’ve also managed to image an older machine and that worked fine.

@arunpalepu said in DHCP Configuration & BIOS configuration for Client workstation:

Can you send me the Edgemax12 router configuration setup for options 66 & 67.

Doing a search on the web I get the impression the Edge Router OS is using DNSmasq as DHCP server. Find some information on how to adjust it’s configuration via command line: https://community.ui.com/questions/Autoinstall-setup-to-support-many-EdgeSwitches/ce17c5da-7540-4e1f-b931-f7381d1d2b99#answer/7df2555d-ecd7-4105-8f1a-b3780a0ff88e

For accessing the router via CLI see manual page 93ff (page nr 89 in the PDF).

Though I think it would be way easier to setup DNSmasq as a so called DHCP proxy on your FOG server: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=ProxyDHCP_with_dnsmasq

@george1421 said in rEFInd - themes:

Also something to try is because the error references “themes\theme.conf” we might want to use the dos path separator instead of the unix one. \ vs / in the --name key value.

I did this as the first project, this is much mor work than i thought… it has to be made by hand, no search and replace…
But there is some success:

imgfetch <somename> <uri> **<somename>**

this second somename made a change and I even saw for a second the backgroundimage before it fell back to textmode! So the syntax and the path works ina way
but this fallback to textmode led only to another problem:
“Icons directory doesn’t exist; setting back textonly =TRUE”

Also in your imgfetch, I don’t see you actually sending “themes\theme.conf” to iPXE. Maybe that is why its throwing the error. Again I’m doing a lot of educated guessing here because I’ve never needed this method. So its going to be some trial and error here.

it is there 🙂 in the first row - and after adding the second “somename” on the end it works…

@thomgee Can you change the configuration file to look for the icons and images in the same path where the refind.efi and refind.conf? I really don’t know how the directory structure works within this ipxe vhd . The concerns is that its a simple directory structure where sub dirs are not supported.

Maybe I don’t need this in the moment, as it is reading the themes/theme.conf and the huge amount of files.
the Icon-dir is my problem, as refind needs is obviously somehow.
I guess it needs the default icon-folder refind ships - but I feel horrified to fetch every single file…

@george1421 The ASUS was set to uefi mode and the Levovo was set to legacy. I updated the firmware on the Lenovo and changed it from legacy to uefi and now i’m presented with the eEFIND about page.